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X Poll - Things Fam Does that Makes You Crazy For July 31st, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, it's time for the ex bold, and the
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  Speaker 1: question is simple, what's something that your family does other
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  Speaker 1: than politics that just drives you crazy, Like, uh, there's
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  Speaker 1: a member of my extended family who's overly complimentary. No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it's just it's just I would think you
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  Speaker 1: would love them. No, No, No, lays it on way too.
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  Speaker 2: Thick, like it's insincere.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I guess it's insincere. It's just too much.
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  Speaker 3: It's embarrassing it stop, do go on.
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  Speaker 1: No, I just know it's you know, thank you? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know that I have I have a
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  Speaker 1: successful career. Yes, I yeah, I'm I'm you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Carrie. It's just it just it just
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  Speaker 1: gets to be too much and it's embarrassing, makes me
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  Speaker 1: feel creepy. You must have several examples, Gina.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, I was just reading this one that came
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  Speaker 2: in via text. Why can my wife and kid not
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  Speaker 2: put dishes in the dishwasher? They stack them high in
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  Speaker 2: the sink, which is literally inches from the dishwasher. Is
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  Speaker 2: it really that hard?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have any because I don't speak to my
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  Speaker 4: family because of politics.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, Tim, the tree guy is.
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  Speaker 1: Here, Tim, something your family does that drives you crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Makes me the referee between them squabbling.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, well, Jed, she said this.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah yeah yeah. It's always and I mean they're
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  Speaker 5: all grown and gone and it still happens.
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  Speaker 3: They call you on the phone. Yeah, oh yeah, so
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  Speaker 3: one of you, one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Will call you an unload, and then a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: later another one will call you about the same thing
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  Speaker 1: an unload right.
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  Speaker 5: Right, or sometimes they call me in a group chat.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it gets old.
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  Speaker 1: Oh jeez, well, Tim, Tim, we just have to chalk
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  Speaker 1: it up to the fact that everyone in your family
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  Speaker 1: understands that you are the wisest person.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, that's what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Oh man, they are so deceived.
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  Speaker 2: This sex pole makes me crazy watching the men and
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  Speaker 2: team boys on my husband's side of the family sit
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  Speaker 2: on their asses watching sports while the women cook and
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  Speaker 2: clean at family functions. These are huge gatherings, sometimes fifty people.
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  Speaker 2: I am not popular with the male teenagers. I make
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  Speaker 2: them take an active part in cleaning up.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, Nate, it's a matter. They know
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  Speaker 1: their place. That's the way it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it. You women folk, you go into the kitchen
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  Speaker 3: and take care of things. That's what Nick says. All right,
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  Speaker 3: let's go to Richard.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Richard.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Richard, what what is it? What's the story?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, whenever you have a family dinner or something with
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  Speaker 6: my dad, he always asked me, are you going to church?
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  Speaker 6: Which I haven't gone for forty years, so.
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  Speaker 4: Already he keeps hoping, hope spring's eternal.
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  Speaker 1: No he's not. He's not hoping. He's trying to just
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  Speaker 1: make you feel bad. Yeah, absolutely, which is really when
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  Speaker 1: you think about it, it's kind of a crappy thing
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  Speaker 1: for a father to do to his son.
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  Speaker 2: But thank you, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Richard, Thank you guys. My family uses our group chat
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  Speaker 4: to talk to each other, but I don't need to
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  Speaker 4: know you're cleaning out your garage, Julia.
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  Speaker 2: In laws who feel the need to tattle one adult
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  Speaker 2: baiting the other adult or ratting out the other adult
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  Speaker 2: to the parent.
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  Speaker 4: My family tells me I'm bossy, but then they all
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  Speaker 4: want me to all their problems.
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  Speaker 3: Let's at timd the tree guy situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my in laws will bite their forks when they eat.
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  Speaker 2: It's awful, eh.
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  Speaker 4: Like I can here, they meddle, right, My family celebrates
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  Speaker 4: every single holiday and birthday together, and it gets irritated
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  Speaker 4: and they get irritated if you don't make it. There's
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  Speaker 4: like twenty seven of us now, yeah, oh yeah, just just.
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  Speaker 2: Have events and say we're having this thing. If you
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  Speaker 2: can come, great, If not, that's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, Hey, Mike, Why that's Mike.
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  Speaker 7: I'm listening and off and enjoying the show.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Uh. Something our teenagers do is complain about there's no
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  Speaker 7: food in the house. You know, we just went shopping.
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  Speaker 3: What they mean is there's nothing there that they like.
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  Speaker 7: Right the pan, the pantry, and the freezers. First he
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  Speaker 7: wants food, but there's no We have cheral boxes all
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  Speaker 7: over and but there's no Hawk prepared food for me
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  Speaker 7: right then and there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's at that point you say, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to eat, you have to learn to make
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  Speaker 1: it yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, all right, thanks mikey, Mike. Let's go to Amy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Amy, good morning morning.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, go ahead, Hi.
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  Speaker 6: So my family is late. Yeah where they go?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yes.
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  Speaker 6: And my dad was late to everything so much so
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  Speaker 6: that his doctors would schedule him for a They would
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  Speaker 6: tell him a one o'clock appointment. Yeah, but it was
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  Speaker 6: really a one thirty appointment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we had to do We had to do this
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  Speaker 4: with my sister in law while we were traveling in
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  Speaker 4: Korea and Japan, because we would tell her we're leaving
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  Speaker 4: it seven and she would be ready at seven thirty.
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  Speaker 4: So we started saying six thirty and then she was
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  Speaker 4: at seven fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: Excuse for that. I mean, everybody's late once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: but chronically late that everybody knows you're always late.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's not a pretty strange, right.
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  Speaker 6: My dad also was the organist at church, and he
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  Speaker 6: had to be there before everyone else, and he was
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  Speaker 6: showing up five minutes after.
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  Speaker 4: It started.
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  Speaker 6: Frustrating.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there you go, Thanks Amy.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, You're welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Eight seven seven six h two nine six nine six
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  Speaker 4: is the number to call the ex poll. What is
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  Speaker 4: something that your family members or family member does that
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  Speaker 4: drives you crazy? Not political?
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  Speaker 2: We have my brother in law will tell you something
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  Speaker 2: followed by you know what I mean? In a five
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  Speaker 2: minute conversation. You will hear that fifteen times. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six anticipate.
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  Speaker 4: I found the best way to counter that, and they
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  Speaker 4: start to figure it out is yes, I do know what,
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  Speaker 4: but you have to do it every every time I
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  Speaker 4: say it, And then eventually they go, oh, oh, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. My father in law lives with us, and he
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  Speaker 2: will get a candy or treat out of the treat drawer,
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  Speaker 2: unwrap it and put the wrapper in the garbage and
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  Speaker 2: then go in pockets on the counts and cushions. Drives
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  Speaker 2: me nets. Oh, he won't put the wrapper in the garbage,
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  Speaker 2: He'll put all the wraps in the cushions.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, oh okay, all right, Josephine.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, good morning, good morning. What do you got for us?
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  Speaker 8: So I can't stand it when my family sends out
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  Speaker 8: a big group text message.
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  Speaker 6: And everyone reacts with an emoji. You end up with
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  Speaker 6: like twenty text messages.
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  Speaker 2: We just assume that the thumbs up from everybody. How
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  Speaker 2: about that you don't need fifteen thumbs ups from everyone?
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  Speaker 6: That's exactly it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, thank you, Josephine.
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  Speaker 4: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six.
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  Speaker 1: I had a family member again, this is a long
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  Speaker 1: time ago, but so so we sit down to a
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  Speaker 1: big family dinner in their big communal plates of food
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  Speaker 1: or dishes castural dishes, and and this person would always
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  Speaker 1: take so much that there wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: Enough left for all. That's rude. Yeah, just always load
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  Speaker 3: up his plate. And then.
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  Speaker 2: My wife wanting to have deep intense conversations while we're
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  Speaker 2: watching a movie. So she has no clue what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, let's see. Uh, my family can and
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  Speaker 4: does turn everything religious. Oh my little family is not
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  Speaker 4: religious at all. So when my whole family meet for
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  Speaker 4: gatherings or events, said events begin with and end with
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  Speaker 4: a prayer. Let's see, dates of either are even scheduled
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  Speaker 4: around religious holidays to keep and remember what is the
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  Speaker 4: most important. It gets old. Yeah, and the treatment is
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  Speaker 4: not reciprocated.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, because I love my mom, but spending time with her,
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  Speaker 2: she's notorious about trying to make future plans together. As
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  Speaker 2: I'm leaving, just text me or call me later. Your
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  Speaker 2: mom just wants to see you again.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see line two. Let's go to line two. It
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  Speaker 3: is Sarah, Hello, Sarah, Hi, Sarah, where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 5: Sandy?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's your family do that drives you crazy?
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  Speaker 6: My husband's family. I love them, they're so sweet, but
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  Speaker 6: they struggle with their They're they're too too too where
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  Speaker 6: where like all of them like, please figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, I get it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, drive you crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I can't stand that either. Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see.
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  Speaker 4: My parents love to refer to their neighbors as if
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  Speaker 4: I know who they are. You are I moved out
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  Speaker 4: when I was sixteen, and no, I don't know mister Simmons,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't care what his daughter is up to.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: As the only child not married or living at home,
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  Speaker 2: no one tells me anything big event coming up. I
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  Speaker 2: find out a few days before changeing plans. Well I'm
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  Speaker 2: last to know. Someone dies, get engaged, pregnant, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: The last taken. Then ye Jay is here? Hi Jay, Hi?
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  Speaker 3: What's what's your story here?
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  Speaker 8: So my husband, when we're watching the movie, he will
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  Speaker 8: narrate the whole movie.
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  Speaker 7: Yah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, knocking on the door and then the man he
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  Speaker 9: just went through the door and wait, wait, j are
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  Speaker 9: you blind?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? He justes he tell you what is he trying
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  Speaker 3: to help?
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  Speaker 8: That's what I tell him. We're not watching Old Town
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  Speaker 8: or our town.
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  Speaker 3: I just need to watch the show. Why why does
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  Speaker 3: he do this.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Why I don't know, and why after all this time?
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  Speaker 3: How long is the love of God? Doesn't he's how
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  Speaker 3: long has it been?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we've been together three years and.
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  Speaker 4: He's still doing it.
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  Speaker 2: He's still try this.
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  Speaker 4: Say all right, we're gonna watch a movie. Let's sit
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  Speaker 4: down and watch this movie. Oh wait, before we do,
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  Speaker 4: then pull out some duct tape or a sock and
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  Speaker 4: put it on his mouth and go, okay, I'm ready
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  Speaker 4: to watch the movie.
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  Speaker 3: Now here's a sock. I want you to put this
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  Speaker 3: starm out.
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  Speaker 8: That's that's it. When but when he tells a story,
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  Speaker 8: then he'll say in other words, at the end of
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  Speaker 8: the story and then explain it to me differently.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you didn't get it that way, so let me
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  Speaker 2: try it another way.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, so truck is our president and I was
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  Speaker 8: just trying to is an example anyway. But yeah, he'll
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  Speaker 8: tell a story and then he'll say and in other words.
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  Speaker 3: Jay, I I don't I don't really have much hope
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  Speaker 3: for this. Mary, I would suggest to you.
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  Speaker 4: Utah divorcenow dot com ask for Wade.
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  Speaker 8: Oh thanks you guys, I love you. I'm calling from Sparks, Nevada. Ohude,
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  Speaker 8: I miss you guys so much.
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  Speaker 1: Still listen, So you're you're stuck in Sparks, Nevada, or
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  Speaker 1: in other words, you've gone to spark all right.
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  Speaker 4: See La, let's see leave the bathroom door open while
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  Speaker 4: they do their business.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't do that.
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  Speaker 4: It's your business and should be private, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: want my nose in your business.
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  Speaker 2: Literally, somebody says, when my mom doesn't have anything else
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  Speaker 2: to talk about, she says, that's my story and I'm
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  Speaker 2: sticking to it.
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  Speaker 4: My eighty five year old father drives like he's in
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  Speaker 4: gas car, one hand on the wheel, one hovering between
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  Speaker 4: the brights and the horn. You've heard of defensive driving.
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  Speaker 4: My pop is an offensive driver. Is driving offends my spouse's.
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  Speaker 2: Entire family talks with their mouths full at the dinner table.
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  Speaker 2: Where are your.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, let's see my Mormon sister who was only
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  Speaker 4: able to converse in rosy platitudes and has no idea
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  Speaker 4: how she herself actually thinks or feels about the subject.
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  Speaker 4: My mother always says, did you pray about it?
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  Speaker 3: This one says.
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  Speaker 2: My mother only calls me to get info on my brother,
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  Speaker 2: who went no contact with her over a year ago.
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  Speaker 2: She never gets any, but she keeps trying.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see, we have two bins, one for trash and
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  Speaker 4: one for recycling. When the recycle bin is full, they
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  Speaker 4: just start stacking junk on top of the bin, folding boxes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's funny.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm sitting here thinking of all the things
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  Speaker 1: that I do that must drive my wife crazy.
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  Speaker 3: That I know drive my wife crazy. Having that made
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  Speaker 3: me divorce. Now having to know so.
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  Speaker 1: I had to I have to very often say is
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: this recyclable? Because I really there are some genuine there
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  Speaker 1: are some things that I'm kind of iffy on.
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  Speaker 2: That's not that's not bad.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we have to get one of our trash
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  Speaker 4: men who listened to weigh in on it. But as
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  Speaker 4: I recall, it's only number one or number there are.
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  Speaker 2: It's fewer things than you think that they are.
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  Speaker 1: And there there are certain certain kinds of cardboard that
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  Speaker 1: are not recyclable.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they've got a coating.
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  Speaker 1: On them versus shiny the shiny cart. But there are
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  Speaker 1: certain things I'm just iffy about.
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  Speaker 3: Well I am guilty of.
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  Speaker 4: You know, people have tupperware, we have glass instead.
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  Speaker 3: Of the plastic.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I I apparently do not stack them properly, the.
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  Speaker 2: Big one on the bottom and then the smaller ones.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, apparently, I'm just you can learn. I
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  Speaker 4: suppose why didn't you? Then I'd have to pull them
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  Speaker 4: all out and start over, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Anyway, all right, well there's the expole.
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  Speaker 2: We'll move that to social media. I'm sure there are
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  Speaker 2: many more contributions.
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  Speaker 4: There's a ton of texts coming in, but we're out
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  Speaker 4: of time.
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  Speaker 3: In other words, we don't have any more time for
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: the ex pole.
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  Speaker 2: Know me, That's my story and I'm sticking to it.